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TV shows aren't too different from people in at least one respect: The longer they've been around, the less interest they tend to garner. But the sixth season of FX's beloved spy spoof Archer is like few others. It's an "unrebooting" of the previous year, in which creator Adam Reed, report...]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/film/archer-adam-reed/http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/film/focus-glenn-ficarra-john-requa/
If Grace Kelly had been raised by coyotes, she might have stalked the screen like Focus' Margot Robbie, a va-va-voom blonde with bite. Robbie is too beautiful to play normal, too sly to play nice. Miscast as a shy saint in Craig Zobel's upcoming Sundance hit Z for Zachariah, she had...]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/film/focus-glenn-ficarra-john-requa/http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/film/maps-to-the-stars-david-cronenberg/
Is it possible to essentially like a movie yet feel revulsion toward its script? David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars is clearly intended as a sharp satire of Hollywood ambition, vanity, avarice and emptiness, and in places, it's smart and astringently funny. Yet it seems to be fighting it...]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/film/maps-to-the-stars-david-cronenberg/http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/film/wild-canaries-lawrence-michael-levine/
The new Brooklyn is generally derided as a wilderness of double-wide strollers, young men with the facial hair of Canadian loggers circa 1852, and artisanal everything. But in Wild Canaries, a modestly scaled murder mystery/comedy from writer/director/star Lawrence Michael Levine, today's ...]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/film/wild-canaries-lawrence-michael-levine/http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/film/bluebird-lance-edmands/
You know how three-quarters of the way through most conventionally plotted movies it looks as if things couldn't get more bleak for the protagonists? Lance Edmands' haunted hard-times drama Bluebird starts at that point, and then sinks from there, seemingly out of some conviction that this...]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/film/bluebird-lance-edmands/http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/film/young-bodies-heal-quickly-andrew-t-betzer/
If there is a "crisis" among American boys, as you sometimes hear during slow news weeks, its cause is pretty straight-up clear: The bored and brutish traits our culture encourages in boys no longer have anything to do with the ones this economy actually rewards. In its terrific first half-hour, ...]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/film/young-bodies-heal-quickly-andrew-t-betzer/http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/culture/bonnie-and-clyde-costa-mesa-playhouse/
It shouldn't surprise anyone that two of America's most iconic criminals, Bonnie and Clyde, received the musical-theater treatment. Not when you consider the genre has tackled, or limped over, everything from anthropomorphized cats and New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia to teenage psychopaths...]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/culture/bonnie-and-clyde-costa-mesa-playhouse/http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/culture/trendzilla-monkwood-brandon-munoz/
"I'm always experimenting," says Brandon "Monk" Muñoz. "I've been working with wood my whole life, but there came a point when I said, 'If I have to build another cabinet, I'm gonna go insane.'"

Instead, the 37-year-old father of four sawed his own path into a world of elegant, bre...]]>

Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/culture/trendzilla-monkwood-brandon-munoz/http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/food/hole-in-the-wall-patagonia-empanadas-tustin/
Liquor-store restaurants have a hit-and-miss record in Orange County. On one hand, you have wild success stories such as Peter's Gourmade Grill, Kush Bowl and Kech Cafe; on the other hand, great Korean, Mexican and Jamaican liquor-store eateries have come and gone over the years. May the former r...]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/food/hole-in-the-wall-patagonia-empanadas-tustin/http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/columns/hey-you-sonata-von-karman/
You are the idiot who was driving the Sonata in Irvine the other day. Yes, the right-turn lane on Von Karman between Alton and Barranca is super-wide. Yes, you can take it doing 30 mph during rush hour when there's a mile-long line of cars waiting for the light. No, you should not use it to cut i...]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/columns/hey-you-sonata-von-karman/http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-02-26/columns/ask-a-mexican-conservative-immigration-language/